Peru’s Sabancaya volcano is alive and kicking!

by Shirley Marie Bradby

January 10, 2017

Peru’s Sabancaya volcano is alive and kicking!
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Sabancaya is a volcano located in the Andes mountain range and is among the ten highest active volcanoes in the world.

Its summit, at 5,976 meters (19,606 ft), is covered with a thick layer of ice, but when the volcano wakes up, it is perfectly capable of blowing off the ice with its very powerful eruptions.

As we can see in the video, in December 2016, Sabancaya showed the power of its eruptions as demonstrated by this enormous ash emission that is truly impressive ...

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